Jan
Brett's writing and illustrations are the focus of our author study
through the end of this month. Children are learning key literacy
comprehension skills, including identifying characters and setting, and
retelling a story in sequence - beginning, middle & end - through
this study. Understanding what is read is an important skill students learn as emerging and early readers. In the story of The Mitten and The Three Snow Bears, students closely practiced these skills. Children are learning how to Check
For Understanding (one of our Daily 5 Literacy Comprehension skills)
during shared reading, and when they are reading independently. Much time was spent this week on retelling these stories and making connections to what we already know. To extend this learning and connect our reading to writing, students have been responding in writing. These response to texts help focus the student's thinking on checking for understanding. Through guided practice and turn and talk, children shared their thinking orally before putting their ideas on paper. Check out your student's written work later in the week. INQUIRE with them what Jan Brett Story as been their favorite!
Through our study of Jan Brett, we have been noticing how detailed her stories are. Students have been also learning about key story elements including setting, characters, problem, and solution. We noticed that in each Jan Brett story, we can identify each of these elements. The focus on Jan Brett last week continued to weave into this week's focus on gingerbread, as students began noticing that she
wrote 2 Gingerbread stories. Gingerbread Friends has definitely been a
favorite, however, they have yet to read the Gingerbread Baby! Jan Brett's versions of the classic gingerbread stories have definitely been not as captivating to our young readers! Tomorrow, we'll be able to see and
hear Jan Brett on the computer. We will be watching her sketch a page of the
book and also listen as she reads, The Gingerbread Baby. The students
are learning that authors and illustrators are real people and this
served as a great opportunity for the students to be able to see her in
action! We are learning a little about Jan Brett's life as a writer and
illustrator. We learned and noticed that she loves to write books
about animals and most of her books offer information about animals and
nature. We found out that she loves to visit other countries to learn
about their cultures, costumes and countryside to add to her stories.
We have been paying close attention to the borders and side panels in
each of her stories. The detailed illustrations often offer us
additional details and clues about the story
.
Jan
Brett's writing and illustrations are the focus of our author study
through the end of this month. Children are learning key literacy
comprehension skills, including identifying characters and setting, and
retelling a story in sequence - beginning, middle & end - through
this study. Understanding what is read is an important skill students learn as emerging and early readers. In the story of The Mitten and The Three Snow Bears, students closely practiced these skills. Children are learning how to Check
For Understanding (one of our Daily 5 Literacy Comprehension skills)
during shared reading, and when they are reading independently. Much time was spent this week on retelling these stories and making connections to what we already know. To extend this learning and connect our reading to writing, students have been responding in writing. These response to texts help focus the student's thinking on checking for understanding. Through guided practice and turn and talk, children shared their thinking orally before putting their ideas on paper. Check out your student's written work later in the week. INQUIRE with them what Jan Brett Story as been their favorite! 